> On Mar 2, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Yiguang Yan wrote:
>
>> (All with the same test script test.bash I post in my previous emails, so run with app file fed to mpirun command.)
>>
>> (1) If I put the --prefix in the app file, on each line of it, it works fine as Jeff said.
>>
>> (2) Since in the manual, it is said that the full path of mpirun is the same as setting "--prefix". However, with app file,
>> this is not the case. Without "--prefix" on each line of the app file, the full path of mpirun does not work.
>
> Ralph and I just had a phone conversation about this. We consider it a bug -- you shouldn't need to put --prefix in the app file. Meaning: --prefix is currently being ignored if you use an app file (and therefore you have to put --prefix in the app file). We're going to fix that.

Updated in the developer's trunk. I don't think we'll bring this to the 1.5 branch, though I leave that up to Jeff.